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New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection"

TheGallopedHigh — Sat, 29 May 2021 08:16:41 +0000

That doesn’t make sense. Every physicist is an engineer and vice versa

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware"

TheGallopedHigh — Sun, 23 May 2021 12:38:29 +0000

Or wood. Or basically most things. Just depends on the level you’re comfortable with.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews"

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 19 May 2021 20:59:49 +0000

So called fat tailed distributions are a random walk. It’s just that their sample distribution is a power law (no mean hence fat tail). Example of which is a Lévy flight: a random walk with a heavy tail.

Here’s a link for your perusal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm"

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 19 May 2021 20:47:23 +0000

Randomness in pixel values

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert"

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 12 May 2021 22:20:12 +0000

You can build earthquake proof buildings. See many nations in the pacific: notably Japan.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada"

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 05 May 2021 16:06:14 +0000

Insuflation: the act of blowing on or breathing on

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)"

TheGallopedHigh — Sat, 01 May 2021 22:46:08 +0000

I’m sure any skilled hunter would argue differently. Just watch Meat Eater on YouTube for use of animal sound mimicary ant it’s use in hunting.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Internal Combustion Engine"

TheGallopedHigh — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:18:56 +0000

By the mere fact that the car wasn’t pitting as often. Car was likely inspected afterwards.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Ultra-weak gravitational field detected"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:02:14 +0000

Yep any size particle should. But gravity is described by classical physics through general relativity. When you have situations of very small quantum scales and large gravitational fields both general relativity and quantum field theory don’t work well together. This is a big problem in physics. See here for more details

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity

Shootout on Juneau Wharf (1898)

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:35:49 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootout_on_Juneau_Wharf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409492

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency"

TheGallopedHigh — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 11:56:28 +0000

This company did a slight pivot to building autonomous collectors anchored in rivers which have the most plastic dumped into them leading to the ocean.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:22:01 +0000

Peer-review is free. Editing and Lay-out etc is done with the journal (not much though as they supply latex templates for your work). So there is some cost associated with this.

Abram Petrovich Gannibal

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:46:40 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26086566

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form"

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:48:05 +0000

The first time we discovered an exoplanet was in the late 90s orbiting I believe a binary pulsar system.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:54:42 +0000

That sounds very inefficient. Here’s something that gets good results quickly. Tie a string/top to a filled 2L bottle. Attach the other end of the rope to the center of a short wooden pole. Wind up the bottle. Wind down the bottle. Repeat ad infinitum. Quick and easy.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:51:10 +0000

Holding back the sea pressure is implicitly holding the submarine at atmospheric pressure.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:48:17 +0000

Mark Felton did cover that as well on YouTube.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "What my retraction taught me"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:43:54 +0000

There is so much on the plate of the academic that to learn yet another piece of software — like docker which can be trying at the best of times — is yet another straw that can break the back.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle"

TheGallopedHigh — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 07:12:44 +0000

Forearms are quite difficult to do without equipment. Unless you include something that could be easily procured at home.

New comment by TheGallopedHigh in "FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks"

TheGallopedHigh — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:17:03 +0000

You do realize that often artist don’t physically make a large portion of larger art pieces. Nor do they set them up in galleries it is often done by teams but the artist gets the sole credit.